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Engineering the thermal profile of a polymer by means of conducting microwires provides a path towards versatile tunable optical elements.

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Fig. 1: Tunable lens arrays.

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Piestun, R. Free-form micro-optical elements heat up. Nat. Photonics 13, 583–584 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0515-2

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